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llic prison pXirrar. Edited and Published by the Inmates. Entered at the Post Office at Stillwater Minn. Second Class Mail Matter. Subscription Rates. THE PRISON MIRROR is issued every Thurs day morning at the following rates. One Tear 11.00 Six Months 50 Three Montns 25 Single Copies 5 Subscriptions must be paid invariably in ad vance. Advertising rates given upon application. Address. EDITOR PRISON MIRROR. Stillwater, Minn. TO THE PUBLIC. THE PRISON MIRROR is a weekly paper pub lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter published In its columns is contributed by the Inmates, except that properly credited. Its sup port must come from the outside as every inmate Is given a paper without cost. It is published in the interest of the prison library and after paying for the printing outfit, contributed $l5O to the library fund the first year. Its objects are to en courage individual intellectual effort, provide a healthy journal for the inmates of this and other prisons, and, above all, to acquaint the outside world with the needs of the prison by reflecting its inner life and thus aid the cause of moral ad vancement and prison reform. IMPORTANT TO SI BSCRIBERS. There are a number of our wealthy sub scribers who have allowed their subscrip tions to run three years behind. They have been billed at the end of each year, but have not responded. Perhaps they have simply neglected the matter. However, we are now about to make them an unprecedented proposition. It is this: If they will inclose in the accompanying self-addressed envel ope the last bills sent them and return them to this office we will cancel their indebted ness. We are poor, but we know how to be generous when occasion demands. This is bona fide. We want to find out just how many paying subscribers we have. Port Said on the Suez canal is believed to be the wickedest small city in the world. It is the Mecca of the depraved outcasts of all European cities. A St. Louis doctor has discovered that street cars cause dyspepsia. Any one who is gluttosf enough to eat a street car deserves to have dyspepsia. The chance of a life time. Every young lady who will secure 100,000 cash subscrip tions for The.Priron Mirror will be re warded with a beautiful autograph letter from the great Factotum. A traveler has discovered an elephant larger than the lamented Jumbo wandering through the wilds of darkest Africa without trunk or tusks. Perhaps Mr. Elephant had been playing Alvin Joslin to poor houses. The Home Journal takes a long original article —“Boys, Let Us Study”—from The Prison Mirror and publishes it as original matter. We have known people who were too proud to recognize their own parents. A man might have the wealth of a Crcesus, the brain of a Bacon and the vir tues of all the saints, yet if withal he had a wart an inch long on the end of his nose he would not be welcome at a fashionable re ception in Shoddyville. A few months ago Mr. Hutchinson (“Old Hutch”) was said to be a mental as well as financial wreck. He left Chicago and loafed around New York City for a while. Now we hear that he has established him self in business in the latter city and has already squeezed $750,000 out of the grain speculators. “The editor and lady of The Prison Mirror” thankfully acknowledge the re ceipt of a complimentary pass to the tifth annual festival of the Sioux City Corn Pal ace. □ The managers, we are sorry to say, cannot be accorded the pleasure of our pres ence. The festival opens Oct. Ist and closes Oct. 17th. He is tonic to us. The secretary ot the St. Paul Board of Health, writes: “Enclosed find check for 81. as per enclosed bill. For the past year you have had me on your sub scription book as “Tonic”. The paper has served as first-class tonic and I wish to con tinue it, but please change the address as it should have been —namely, Oliver J. Tong.” It is pretty well understood that ex- Presi dent Balmaceda is not dead. It is said he was taken on board the United States war ship San Francisco and landed at Callao. Last Saturday the convicts in the San Quentin, Cal., penitentiary went on a strike for better food. The warden gave them permission to appoint a committee of five to lay their complaints before the board of managers on condition that they resume work. The board decided their complaint was not well founded, and now all is serene again. The extra session of the Tennessee legis lature. convened to settle the convict lease trouble, seems to have converted itself into a “sub-treasury scheme” debating society. The main question is almost lost sight of in the general melee, and it is the opinion of leading members that it will be avoided. It is a question of dollars and cents and not as to whether it is right or wrong to continue the barbarous system on into the next gen eration of Tennesseeans. But the legisla ture may yet humiliate their evil prophets. A strange accident occured Tuesday-near Kush City, Minn. The wife of John Baumehen had died and the corpse was laid out in a room adjoining the kitchen. A neighbor lady put a boiler partly filled with water, as she supposed, on the stove and built a fire. The boiler contained ten gal lons of kerosene and when it became hot exploded. The burning oil flew over the corpse setting it on fire. A son carried the burning body out, and the tired-out father and others of the family who were resting up stairs had to jump from the windows to save their lives. The house and all in it was consumed. A REPLY TO JI KES. In last week’s issue we published a letter from Jed Jukes that he was provoked to write by our reference to him a few weeks before. The matter referred to occurred in our notice of the Creed of Liberty, a new paper, a department of which, called “The Ishmaelites,” is conducted by Jukes. It is in the following that he finds cause for tak ing exceptions: “It will be remembered that a few weeks ago we made mention of this same Jed Jukes as having been the au thor of a series of articles on crime and criminals that appeared in the New York Herald and the St. Paul Dispatch. In those articles he assumed a tone concerning ex convicts very dissimilar to this we find in the Creed of Liberty. However, perhaps we misunderstood, but it appeared to us that he thought there was little good to be hoped for in the ex-convict.” He asks us to read those articles again. We have done so and find that the only error made was that we should, instead of saying “there was little good to be hoped for in the ex convict,” have said “of the ex-convict.” We did not say that he made a direct state ment to that effect, but “assumed a tone,” etc. If we got an impression the author did not intend to convey we did no more than every one else hereabouts who read his articles. But it is clear by his letter that he does not reach the real meaning of the matter to which he takes exceptions. We will endeavor now to be plain. In the Creed of Liberty Jed Jukes is combating Jed Jukes in the New York Herald. The whole tendency of his Herald articles is to deepen the prejudice that already exists against those who bear the brand of con vict. In the Creed of Liberty he condemns this prejudice in the strongest terms. In stance: “There is much prejudice and wrongheadedness extant regarding the criminal. . . . Our newspaper press is vastly responsible for the spread of imma ture ideas and narrow notions. ... In this department the newspaper press will be antagonized in its relations to the molding ot public opinions, especially on those which bear on crime and criminals.” Here he strikes at the newspapers for giving cur rency to erroneous opinions concerning those who have once been convicted of crime. Yet in his letter he excuses himself for his prejudicial articles contributed to the public press in this way: “Since they were written 1 have been converted to the saving power of Jesus. The style of the articles was necessarily eomformable to what is termed newspaper matter, or stuff, ' just as you will; consequently, to be mark etable, this thing had to be considered, es pecially when a man was on the point of sinking a foot or two under ground as the writer was at the time. It might interest you to know that two of those papers were re written four times before being accepted. I had to entirely abandon my original ideas of treatment and to ‘just be descriptive’ if I wanted to earn a $lO bill, and I did want, very much.” He confesses to the very of fense for which he purposes disciplining the press. The press panders to the public for the money there is in it and he panders to the press with the same object in view. It is only what nine out of every ten per sons are doing in one way or another all their lives, and in this fact is his only ex cuse for prostituting his wisdom to his physical necessities. We do not say that his sin. so called, was one of commission, but one of omission. The truth of his arti cles was not impunged. But they told only the worst halt while at the same time they left the impression that the whole had been told. Only the most incorrigible class of criminals are described while the other and better class are overlooked as if they did not exist. All night and no day. It is by persistently following this course that the newspapers and gossips create the undue prejudice against the ex-convict. He showed up the prosecuting attorney’s side of the case. The jury (public) has not heard the other side, so conviction through prejudice is the result. Mr. Jukes knows, as all know who have been in or about a prison for the number of years that he was, that there are thousands of ex-convicts in the United States who are leading honest, prosperous lives in communities where tlieir histories are known. Very few men who have the will to be honest, sober and in dustrious but can find an employer who will have charity enough to overlook the fact of their having once worn the stripes. And although we are on the “inside” we know this to be true by reports from those who have made the honest effort unaided by avowed philanthropists or prisoners’ aid societies. The cry of persecution is nearly always a false defense set up to cover an ex-convict’s own backsliding. Now, I hope Mr. Jukes understands what we meant by saying that he had changed his tone. He must not think that because his change of style was noticed that it was done with the idea of throwing discredit upon the honesty of his new purpose in life. Far be it from The Prison Mirror to ever throw a straw in the way of any man, an ex convict espe cially, who is trying in the least to get away from the hell of crime and depravity. If he Is fighting under the leadership of the One who died and went down to the grave with two criminals, so much the more honor to him. The discipline at the United States Naval Academy is of the strictest kind. The reg ulations are the result of years of experi ence, and are adhered to and enforced to the letter. Some of the punishments for academic misdemeanors are not only unique, but strikingly appropriate and effective. When a cadet is guilty of tardiness at any formation, he is required, for a given period subsequent, to report to the officer-in-charge half an hour before the time of the forma tion, standing by until it takes place. Those who oversleep themselves in the morning are compelled for a month to turn out one hour before reveille, and, at the first note of the bugle, to report themselves and the room ready for inspection. Visit ing during study hours is punished by soli tary confinement On the prison ship Santee, as a corrective for too great sociability. In attention at drill carries with it the penalty of one or more extra drills duriug recrea tion hours. Habitual untidiness is cured by requiring the careless cadet to report for inspection to the officer-m charge every hour for a number of days, usually a month. Should non regulation clothing be found in a cadet’s possesion, it is seized by the au thorities as contraband, and not returned until the offender leaves the Academy. It is thus difficult to appear out of uniform. But the worst punishment of all is that vis ited upon a whole class or the entire bat talion, and is inflicted only in cases of in subordination on the part of such large bodies. In such cases, the guilty class or all the cadets, are deprivetLof the privilege of giving hops and entertainments, and, worse yet, they are forbidden to walk with or to call upon the fair sex. This depriva tion generally weakens them, and discipline triumphs.—Baltimore American. Discipline Triumphs. NEWS OF A WEEK, September 9. The Jurors in the great Davis will case at Butte, Mont., disagree. Francois Jules P. Grevy, ex-president of France,, dies of congestion of the lungs. Judge Cooley, chairman of the interstate com* merce commission, resigns from the commission. Maj. Jonas M. Bundy, for many years editorial writer on the New York Mail and Express, dies in Paris. The New York state Republican convention' nominates J. Sloate Fassett, collector of the pork of New York, for governor. Minnesota receives from the government over one million dollars worth of school lands in the Red Lake and Chippewa reservations. September 10. Two of the lady equestrians are seriously in* jured by the fall of their horses at the Minnesota Btate fair. The British labor congress has voted to raise the age limit of children allowed to work in fac* tories to thirteen years. San Salvador is visited by an earthquake that, destroys millions of dollars worth of property, and many lives. Gov. Merriam refuses to commute the death sentence of William Rose, the murderer of Moses Lufkin, and fixes Oct. 16 as the day of execution. September 11 Secretar of War Proctor is making his final tour of inspection. W. B. Curtis, the noted comedian, while drunk, kills a San Francisco policeman. An Italian steamer is sunk off the Greek coast and about 100 people are drowned. The editors of Minnesota Alliance papers meet in St. Paul for the purpose of organizing a reform press association. Cardinal Manning’s physicians have ordered him to quit work, and it is said that the pope will shortly appoint an coadjutor. Minnesota’s World’s Fair commissioners will try to raise SIOO,OOO by asking counties to sub" scribe according to their assessed valuation. September 12. The Minnesota state fair ended a successful season to-day. Charles Lumley, a well-known citizen of Minne apolis, commits suicide. J. M. Bailey, one of the most influential men in South Dakota politics, is dead. E. L. Emery, one of Duluth's most prominent business men, dies after a short illness. Colored men propose to test the constitutionality of the recently enacted separate car act. While bathing at Portland, Ore., John M. Peebles, son of a wealthy London banker, breaks his neck. The World’s Fair commissioners return from Europe and say that all the countries except Italy and a few of the smaller ones will have exhibits. September 13. Italy reinsea to be officially represented at the World's Fair. Brakeman R. K. Shaw has both legs cut off by a freight train in St. Paul. Twenty-six passengers are injured in a wreok near Denver, Col., on the Union Pacific road. It is said that Congressman Mills of Texas is sure to be the next speaker of the national House.. Miss Lane and Miss Pool, the women who were so seriously injured at the state fair races, are re covering. It is announced that Albertson, the absconding secretary of the Fidelity Trust company of Ta* coma, got away with nearly one million dollars. September 14. John Welsh, of Henderson, Minn., kills himself accidentally. Theodore Naeve, of Albert Lea, and Peter Gore, of Winona, are dead. Hon. George B. Loring, ex-minister to Portugal and ex-commissioner of agriculture, dies in Salem, Mass. Russians capture a poaching sealer in Behring sea. They fired on the crews of several vessels and killed two sailors. Floods and storms work great destruction to life and property in Spain. By the overflow of the- Amarguillo 1500 people are killed in Consuegra The European war cloud is dropping low. Eng land has seized the island of Mitylene near the mouth of the Dardanelles and is landing arms and supplies. Walter F. Horton, who was tried in St. Paul for the murder of his wife and acquitted, marries Miss Mary Tan Wie the lady whose name was con spicuous at the trial. A passenger train on the New York Central' makes the run from New York to East Buffalo, a distance of 436% miles, in 440 minutes, including three stops aggregating 14 minutes. This is the fastest long distance run on record. September 15. The threshing engine belonging to Frank Kan» of Rosemount, Minn., blew up instantly killing John Johnson the fireman. The big European war scare of yesterday oc casioned by the reported seizure of a Turkish isl and, is reported groundless to-day. Ex-President F. W. Kennedy and ex-Cashier H. H. Kennedy of the Spring Garden bank, Philadel phia, are sentenced to ten years in the peniten tiary. There is said to be a deal on foot that will result in the consolidation of the Great Northern, Cana dian Pacific and Soo railroads under one man agement. i-